Wordplay: Fun games for Building Reading and Writing Skills in Children with Learning Difficulties

225 Pages·2004·1.5 MB·English

by  Lori Goodman

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Fun Games for Building Reading
and Writing Skills in Children with
Learning Differences
LORI GOODMAN
& LORA MYERS
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To my wonderful boys,
Isaac and Emmett. I love you more than chocolate!
—L.G.
To my first and best reading teachers,
Irene Myers and Shirley Perlman
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Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Parent’s Story xi
PART I (cid:1) Getting Started
1 Before You Play 3
2 How to Play Wordplay Games 11
3 Behind the Games: The Multisensory
Approach to Reading 19
PART II (cid:1) The Wordplay Games
4 ABC Phonics Games 31
5 Vocabulary and Sight Word Games 53
6 Comprehension Games 85
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7 Prewriting/Writing Games 109
8 Miscellaneous Games 133
Appendix 161
Recommended Reading 191
Index 199
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Preface
eading and writing first brought Lori Goodman and
me together. For several years I had been teaching
basic literacy classes for hospital workers in New York City and
was beginning to understand the pervasiveness of learning dis-
abilities among adults who struggle with print. With a fellow
teacher, I got funding to set up a learning center where adults
with special needs could get one-on-one instruction. Lori, a
playwright and teacher whom I had recently met, volunteered
as a tutor. We all created lively teaching materials, including a
range of phonics games, that would help our learners
strengthen their reading and writing skills. Three years later,
when I was asked to create a citywide literacy program for
#1199, the hospital workers’ union, I left the learning center in
Lori’s capable hands.
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Although our working lives took us in different directions,
Lori and I kept up with each other. I celebrated the birth of her
children, Isaac and Emmett, and introduced them to some of
my favorite children’s books (which they still enjoy). When
Lori began to suspect that her older son, Isaac, was having trou-
ble keeping up in school, I became a party to the struggle we
describe in this book. I was impressed by Lori’s persistence in
dealing with New York City’s maddeningly bureaucratic
department of special education, and I was moved by her sen-
sitivity to Isaac’s emotional as well as academic needs.
One day Lori mentioned that she and her husband had
invented some reading and writing games to play with Isaac at
home. These games incorporated special techniques that we had
used with adults in our learning center. It struck me that we
should compile those games and develop new ones to help other
parents whose children were struggling, like Isaac, but who
didn’t have our experience in teaching basic literacy.
The result is this book, which features step-by-step instruc-
tions for reading and writing games that help children learn.
We’ve included basic information about reading instruction that
will help parents and caregivers get the most out of the games.
We hope this book will help you foster a relaxed and playful
approach to learning for the whole family.